COURSE DESCRIPTION - Starting with a good foundation in the ethical decision-making process, the students will be able to identify and analyze pertinent ethical questions by understanding the relevant scientific concepts and applying their decision-making skills to dilemmas in the health and medical field, in research and biotechnology, and in the environmental arena.  Through lectures, group discussions, role-playing, and case-based studies, issues such as organ transplantation, euthanasia, reproductive technologies, human genome project and genetic engineering, gene therapy, cloning, stem cell research, and bioenvironmental policies will be examined

PREREQUISITES - None.

GOAL: The main goal of this one-semester seminar course is the understanding of the scientific principles necessary to make ethical evaluations in the bioscience, biomedicine, and biotechnology fields.

TEXT: THE BASICS OF BIOETHICS.  2 e.  2002.  Veatch, R.M.  Prentice Hall

ETHICAL ISSUES IN BIOTECHNOLOGY. 1e.  2002.  Thornton, W.H. and Morrey, J.  Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, MD.

CASE STUDIES IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ETHICS, 1e. 2004.  Murphy, T. F.. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.

READINGS: Chapters from the assigned text MUST be read before the appropriate lectures. Outlines for each chapter may be given to aid in the study of the material covered. Supplemental readings of clinical or legal case studies and secondary sources for bioethical theory and practice, are strongly recommended.

PORTFOLIO REQUIREMENT AND STUDENT ASSESSMENT:

35% = JOURNAL ASSESSMENT

Weekly entry of responses to readings and classroom activities

** NO MAKEUP EXAMS WILL BE GIVEN

1/18/07

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BT- I (Intro)

1/22/07-1/25/07

BT - I/II/III

1/29/07-2/01/07

BB2

2/05/07-2/08/07

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BT - IV

2/12/07-2/15/07

BB4-5

2/19/07-2/22/07

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2/26/07-3/01/07

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3/05/07-3/08/07

3/19/07

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3/22/07-3/26/07

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3/29/07-4/02/07

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4/05/07-4/09/07

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4/12/07-4/16/07

4/19/07-4/23/07

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